Catherine Wilson

Catherine has more than 15 years experience in consulting, the waste management sector and logistics. She has a track record of building market leading companies within complex and challenging sectors. Key expertise includes developing and executing business strategy, managing complex organizational change including large-scale business transformation and restructuring programs, designing and implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) policy, training of senior managers on WEEE (waste electrical & electronic equipment) treatment practises and other EU waste legislation.

Catherine was engaged as consultant on an 18 month contract to one of the UK's largest packaging and WEEE compliance schemes to set up the complex operational proccesses in line with EU regulations and established a cost competitive solution to help businesses discharge their WEEE obligations. The role included training to bridge the knowledge gap, performed extensive market research, developed operational framework and processes and designed cost analysis models to ensure profitability and enhanced the corporate social responsibility policy as well as audit and procedural guidelines for selecting suppliers. She also provided market research in the Far East to identify new outlets of packaging materials and benchmarked and audited the outlets against the companys CSR policy.

Prior to her consultancy Catherine co-founded Technowaste Ltd in November 2001. The company provided environmental solutions for fridge and other electrical goods recycling. She was responsible for market research, business planning, corporate strategy and all business development.

Catherine set up her current business as a specialist business consultancy providing services to the environmental sector, specialist WEEE advice and services to compliance schemes and manufacturers and offers development of internal CSR policy, standards, training and auditing systems to manufacturers and retailers.

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